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by amalcon 5y ago
Worth noting that a "mistake" in Massachusetts includes not just things that are dangerous, but also such grave misconduct as stopping for a yellow light, going at only the speed limit, or riding a bicycle.
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by amalcon 5y ago
It generally won't, because the systems are designed to make it difficult to nullify a specific person's ballot after the fact. In some jurisdictions, though, there are specified criminal penalties for doing this.
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by amalcon 5y ago
I called the tip line exactly once. I was surprised because it was actually my parents' idea, and I knew it cost money. Of course, it makes sense in retrospect. It was the copy protection part of StarTropics, which come to find out
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by amalcon 5y ago
I mean, that's basically Wickard v. Filburn 60 years later and with a different plant. It actually seems downright reasonable if you accept Wickard as settled law, which it is.
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by amalcon 5y ago
If you want further detail, look up Wickard v. Filburn. An activity taking place within one individual's property in a single state can be regulated under the interstate commerce clause, so long as a case is made that it affects inter
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by amalcon 5y ago
In context, I read this as: "We're not going to say what, specifically, one or more Core Team members are being held unaccountable for. If the Core Team does say what, specifically, we aren't necessarily going to respond. D
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by amalcon 5y ago
I've always disliked this breakdown. My body is something I have -- it's just potentially (not always practically -- see the article) more difficult to clone or otherwise use without my consent than a key fob or something. Edit:
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by amalcon 5y ago
You could plausibly capitalize the ß into one of the homoglyphs for S. Then, lower() could detect the homoglyph and know how to lowercase it. This will have some side effects, though (e.g. a doubled lowercase version of your homoglyph wil
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by amalcon 5y ago
GDP is the gross income of the United States. The revenue of the federal government doesn't quite have an individual analogue, because it's somewhat arbitrary (it is effectively a fraction of GDP that can be unilaterally increase
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by amalcon 5y ago
The population of the United States was around 331 million per the 2020 census, so $1T is a little over $3000 per resident. The GDP of the United States was approximately 21 trillion in 2020 (a pandemic year) per World Bank, so a $1T loan
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by amalcon 5y ago
The motive is precisely because it is less lucrative/useful, and surveillance costs money. The 900 number thing is only lucrative because anyone, even a small child, with physical access to a phone has enough agency to bill arbitrary
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by amalcon 5y ago
> Generally speaking, it is indisputedly obvious to me. When I catch myself saying things like this, I contemplate whether the availability heuristic is deceiving me. It might not be -- I haven't done a rigorous review of this to
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by amalcon 5y ago
Second the recommendation for the series. They have some misses, mostly of the sort where everyone seems to talk past each other, but I learn something from most episodes.
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by amalcon 5y ago
Assuming you're a tech person, have you ever observed a debate between two non-tech people on a tech-adjacent topic (say, responsible disclosure or net neutrality)? It's quite easy for this to happen if you went in agreeing with
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's plentiful relative to the size of compiled or source code. E.g the biggest .so file on this system right now is a <150MB libxul.so. That's only used by one piece of software anyway, and the drop-off is pretty steep after
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by amalcon 5y ago
I think this is kind of the idea, but it has basically the same problems as other areas. You're relying on meatspace legal and copyright systems to associate "ownership" / "right to use" with the NFT, but you
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by amalcon 5y ago
Sort of. Charcoal is made from wood; the released carbon was generally extracted from the atmosphere by the tree. To parent's point, in pre-industrial and early-industrial times, most of this would have come from pre-existing trees cu
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by amalcon 5y ago
Basically that, plus swapping the carts when more trays are needed at the inlet, plus putting advertising on everything. How "putting an ad on a visible surface" even passes the smell test is beyond me, but those claims are valid
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by amalcon 5y ago
Joe Rogan is the one who's polarizing. I don't fully know why myself, as I'm not really a fan of the interview format anyway. I've just observed that he seems to be.
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by amalcon 5y ago
Is there a text source available? I'm not interested in getting this kind of information from a video, even if it weren't a polarizing source.
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by amalcon 5y ago
2018 at the earliest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit... It's not a browser vulnerability per se, but it's still mitigated by having a separate address space.
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by amalcon 5y ago
For the software crowd: We have at least hundreds of terms for "data structure". E.g. tree, binary tree, binary search tree, red-black tree, for just one path down the taxonomy of data structures. If I'm talking to a lay p
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by amalcon 5y ago
"Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." -- A. Gary Shilling
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by amalcon 5y ago
You need a function of more inputs than outputs in order to compose into a function of multiple inputs and a single output. This rules out NOT. Then, we just need to rule out all functions that can't build NOT (i.e. invert one of thei
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by amalcon 5y ago
Most likely they did plan for this. Then, something happened that the failsafe couldn't handle. E.g. if something overwrites /etc/passwd, having a local user won't help. I'm not saying that specific thing happe
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by amalcon 5y ago
Ah yes, that conversation. Here's the list of things on the road map. Which ones do you want to bump to next quarter/year in order to do this new priority? "None" is only an option if you can somehow retroactively hir
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by amalcon 5y ago
It has nothing to do with section 230. The idea that section 230 prescribes different treatment of publishers is an oddly persistent myth.
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by amalcon 5y ago
I watched broadcast news in America two days ago, in fact, though it's somewhat unusual (I prefer to read news). I do remember some pharma ads. I also remember ads for retail stores, chain restaurants, and tourism (an amusement park,
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by amalcon 5y ago
The FDA and CDC are not involved in vaccine mandates. Even the coming federal mandate is through OSHA. They issue recommendations, but so do a lot of other influential people and organizations. That said, this is a real phenomenon and wor
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by amalcon 5y ago
The media, political establishment (or at least half of it), and other industries are supportive of vaccine mandates. These loose groups of people can indeed influence the public, and are using this ability to promote vaccines. These prem

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